engagèrent

\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\

/\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“engagèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #65,125 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,125
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-engagerent · engagèrent · French

engagèrent · rank #65,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,125
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH enfances

Nearest frequency peer: enfances (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « engagèrent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engagèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for engagèrent
PropertyValue
Headwordengagèrent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#65,125
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « engagèrent » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).engagèrenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « enfances » (#65,124), « engraissement » (#65,126), « endocrinologie » (#65,123). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « engagèrent » est au #65,125. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

engagèrent is uncommon French at frequency #65,125 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for engagèrent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is engagèrent, spelled E-N-G-A-G-È-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how engagèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Profitant d’une accalmie météorologique, Aldo et Alvaro s’engagèrent dans la ruelle jusqu’à la porte semi-blindée des cuisines du Requin Chagrin qu’ils dédaignèrent.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engagèrent"?
"engagèrent" is spelled E-N-G-A-G-È-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\.
What does "engagèrent" mean?
As a verb, "engagèrent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.
How do you pronounce "engagèrent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engagèrent" is \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engagèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list